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Cover of Kodansha History of China, Season 7: The Song Dynasty
Kodansha History of China, Season 7: The Song Dynasty
A Torrent of Chinese Thought and Religion
Completed · 30 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. Was the Tang–Song Transition the Watershed of Early-Modern Chinese History? 1. How Did the Tang Empire Decline? 2. Five Dynasties Turmoil and Changing Power in North China 3. The Last Drama of Abdication in Chinese History 4. Song Unification and Reform 5. A Twisting but Peaceful Succession: Emperor Taizong's Throne 6. The Chanyuan Treaty and the Last Fengshan Sacrifice 7. How Did One Become Chief Councillor? High Officials and the Qingli Reforms 8. Political Change before and after Wang Anshi's New Policies 9. What Exactly Did Wang Anshi's Reforms Change? 10. Conflict between New and Old Factions after Reform 11. The Jingkang Incident and Loyal Yue Fei 12. Song–Jin Peace and Qin Hui's Dictatorship 13. The Southern Song's Final Days 14. What Is Confucianism's True Face? Evolution and Renewal from Han to Song 15. Rebuilding State Ritual and Neo-Confucianism's Creation Myth 16. How Did Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism Care for the Inner Life? 17. How Did Song Scholar-Officials Fulfill Their Mission to Family and State? 18. How Did Local Officials Far from Court Find a Basis for Life? Neo-Confucian Support 19. The Tang–Song Transition in Printing, Medicine, Food, and Health 20. Did Weak Military Power Benefit the People? Agriculture, Transport, and Military Technology 21. Tea, Ceramics, Epigraphy, and Objects: Song Aesthetics Rooted in Life 22. Cosmic Spirits in Painting, Calligraphy, Gardens, and Stones: Song Views of Art 23. The Song Literary World: Scholar-Official and Popular Literature 24. Did Commoners Finally Become a Political Concern? Tax and Class Division 25. Money, Towns, and Ports: How Similar Was the Song Economy to Ours? 26. Who Was “Foreign” to the Song, and How Was Diplomacy Conducted? 27. The Song Ended, but Song Culture Still Lives